Common Storyworks
Purpose:
"Kickstarting the Commons - food, industry, enterprise, and education"
>> Leverage web video storytelling to garner support for early-stage open ventures in the conversion of their documented "common good" achievements into tangible assets and diverse liquid capital for the global transition expedition.
What this looks like on a small scale and short timeline:
- produce a series of audiovisual documents from the E.L.L. Seed Project experience, exhibiting social value creation
- organize, contextualize, and broadcast therm with hooks for audience engagement
- invite participation in the Lab story, and present gift offerings in return
- enhance linking to / from related project spaces and peer producers
- reveal patterns of content, format, and currency for wider application
- propose an open enterprise team & brand to further the work
One Sentence Synopsis:
Change-agents and action-organisms sharing their stories to prosper in transition!!
Current Phase:
Spark
Benjamin Brownell
I'm excited by the idea of an emerging ecosystem for social innovation and sustainable peer production!
My personal story leads from outdoorsey childhood in Oregon, through undergrad physics / astronomy education, into media production and ecological design. I am keen on the idea of networked agile ecovillaging, utilizing digital tools to engage large supportive communities in this process as stakeholders.
I am working to develop prototypes and projects around Columbia County, NY, including the Solaqua home base of Emerging Leader Labs. This includes permaculture design, natural building and landscape art, community organizing and outreach, video production, team building, personal growth and learning, open enterprise development, gift exchange, and lots of fun risk and reward.
I am comfortable in roles like ideation, invention, strategy, observation, and push my edge on things like project management, group facilitation, communications, marketing/soliciting, mentorship, and executive action.
I believe, and increasingly act, in accordance with the evident abundance of nature and networks.
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+Source Team Members
+Measurable Impact
Dimensions of value creation / flow within this project scope include:
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increase of proactive attention given toward successful community-supported transition ventures
MEASURE--social media metrics and feedback
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aggregation of useful experiential records by topic/theme and other metadata, aka "wisdom-base"
MEASURE--volume of structured content accessible
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flow of gifted assets arriving in response to requests and outreach
MEASURE--transparent accounting system
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collaborative participation from aligned individuals / orgs
MEASURE--peer / partner testimonials
+Needs
- active social enterprise / commons project partners to co-generate content streams
- trial users, extended feedback, on evaluation and tagging system
- ad-hoc crowdfunding/sourcing campaigners
- production partners and sponsors
- food and fuel stipend
+Offers
- media architecture
- story craft
- documentation
- post-production
- social broadcasting
- content management systems
- aggregation and crosslinking
- crowdfunding campaigns
- open collaboration
+Obstacles
Things that may slow progress--
over-scoping: distraction and disintegration from excessively broad / bold goals
complexity: lack of adoption due to intricate feature sets
incoherence: failure to organize a strong core team / vision
delay of game: slow start / growth due to limited early investment
+Core Principles
Story is the mediator of "force field" of culture--identity, community, values, vision
Focus on the positive, beauty, "success" and see it spread--vs. focus on discord, which leads to conflict about "right" solutions.
Demonstrations of universal/common good as an anchor for coherence and resource aggregation
Invite participation in an appealing "new story" of world that works--permission to evolve
Benjamin Brownell
I'm excited by the idea of an emerging ecosystem for social innovation and sustainable peer production!
My personal story leads from outdoorsey childhood in Oregon, through undergrad physics / astronomy education, into media production and ecological design. I am keen on the idea of networked agile ecovillaging, utilizing digital tools to engage large supportive communities in this process as stakeholders.
I am working to develop prototypes and projects around Columbia County, NY, including the Solaqua home base of Emerging Leader Labs. This includes permaculture design, natural building and landscape art, community organizing and outreach, video production, team building, personal growth and learning, open enterprise development, gift exchange, and lots of fun risk and reward.
I am comfortable in roles like ideation, invention, strategy, observation, and push my edge on things like project management, group facilitation, communications, marketing/soliciting, mentorship, and executive action.
I believe, and increasingly act, in accordance with the evident abundance of nature and networks.
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